Bush Brothers is not about special forces or heroic, secret missions. Instead, it is an intimate look at the daily life of ordinary soldiers – and the unbreakable bonds they formed under fire. This is the story of thousands of infantry men who were deployed in the SADF, on or across the Border. Colourful characters and wild partying are interspersed with the life-and-death choices troops were forced to make as they sacrificed life and limb, not so much for their country, but for each other.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

As an 18-year-old, Steve de Witt was conscripted into the South African army, a life-changing experience that he has always wanted to write about. De Witt has lived in Los Angeles, where he launched a successful IT firm, and has since retired to Cape Town. He traced many of his erstwhile ‘bush brothers’ via social media, and arranged a recent in-person reunion. The other members of this group have encouraged him to publish a book on what it was like to serve as an ordinary conscript in the South African Defence Force during the Border War. 

'Bush Brothers: Life and Death Across the Border' is published by Tafelberg, an imprint of NB Publishers